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nijesam

nijesam

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) nísam
  • (regional, chiefly Serbia) nésam

Verb

nijésam

  1. (historical, literary) negative first-person singular present tense form of biti.

nijèsam

  1. (Montenegro) negative first-person singular present tense form of biti.

References

  • “nijesam” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Pero Budmani (editor) (1892-1897), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 4, JAZU: Zagreb, pp. 606-607

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne + *esmь, first-person singular present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesьmь in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něsьmь (attested in 1406). The term něsьmь eventually formed něsamь. Because of the yat reflex, něsamь became rendered as nijesam in Ijekavian speeches.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nijě:sam/, /nijěsam/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧je‧sam

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